Slavery

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 1, 1863

Some Baptists have apparently voiced criticisms of Southern Baptist Convention resolutions, passed in May, blessing the mingling of Church and Confederacy. An editorial in today’s Christian Index offers a defense of the Southern Baptist Convention’s insistence upon the Confederacy as God’s chosen nation defending the biblical institution of slavery. Some small opposition was made to…

African Slavery

Baptists and the American Civil War: July 8, 1862

Amos C. Dayton (1811-1865), a popular Baptist pastor in the South and advocate of Landmarkism, continues his relentless apologetic for African slavery. The Baptist press of the South not infrequently publishes recently-preached sermons upholding slavery. This week, the Georgia Baptist Christian Index publishes a (lengthy) summary of a pro-slavery sermon preached one week earlier in…